Studio portrait of Osmund and Katherine (Allen) Herem and family. Born in Saude, Rogaland (Stavanger), Norway, the son of Knute Alfsen and Ragnild Osmundsdtr (Ostrem) Herem, he joined his older brother Andrew in Stillwater County in 1907. He purchased land in the vicinity of his brother's ranch and raised sheep and cattle. Katherine, the daughter of Steven and Lillian (Fitch) Allen, was born in Lolney, North Dakota, May 1, 1893.